In this blog post I am going through steps to configure and enable real time push notification for NightScout Windows Phone 10 app and also sending SMS messages to other subscribers on other smartphone platforms like iOS. First, I created an Azure...

Ever since our son was diagnosed with #T1D back in August our lives have changed forever, but despite the challenges a lot of positive support from family, friends (New and old) and of course Technology has blessed each of us specially Sam! This blog...

As announced earlier on Office Blog we do now support connecting to on-premises ODFB using iPad app (starting with v 1.2.1 and above), per above blog post as this point we support FBA or NTLM to authenticate and authorize users to get access to their...

Recently I was asked by a customer if there is a way to allow SharePoint Online users to connect to an on-premises SQL database without using BCS and avoid the overhead configuring that. As a fan of SharePoint Apps and Azure the recommendation was...

By Melissa Layupan and Ali Mazaheri
INTRODUCTION
Media file encoding (and transcoding) is one of the predominant use-cases within the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry, and one which many M&E companies struggle with.
Reason being...

Recently MTC Irvine team had the pleasure of collaborating with Steve Peschka and F5 engineers to validate leveraging F5 appliance as a reverse proxy for O365 Hybrid Search scenarios. I am super glad to announce that the technical article is now available...

With recent announcement of support for SQL Server AlwaysOn on Azure IaaS, in this post I am going over the steps to configure a Listener for automatic failover of a SharePoint 2013 content database from a primary replica to a secondary. The environment...

Working on implementing a POC to demonstrate the new e-Discovery capabilities in SharePoint and Exchange 2013 I hit an interesting issue which I could not find any resources online to troubleshoot. To setup the e-Discovery I successfully:
Installed...

Here is quick step by step post on how to build a sample App to embed a Yammer feed on an O365 SharePoint site by leveraging Yammer Connect API . In Visual Studio 2012 create a new project using SharePoint 2013 App template: Open the App.js file an add...

Cross posting from Exchange Team Blog: Site mailboxes allow users to work together naturally – while compliance is applied behind the scenes. A site mailbox brings Exchange emails and SharePoint documents together. For users, a site mailbox serves as...

One of the common challenges upgrading a multi-farm MOSS 2007 (Parent/Child) deployment to SharePoint 2010 was the introduction of new service application architecture and planning for downtime upgrading MOSS 2007 parent farm to a new SharePoint 2010...

SharePoint 2013 brings a lot of new capabilities and enhanced functionalities such as new XSP (Cross Site Publishing), Image and Video rendition, Friendly URLs, Content Search Web part and tight integration with Search and Managed Metadata service applications...

As you’ve already heard lots of new and enhanced capabilities are coming through the latest version of Office Web Apps (Preview) , my colleague Steve Peschka did a great job on his post going over steps required to deploy a new OWA farm for your...

This post provides a high-level step by step guide on upgrading a SharePoint 2010 site to a SharePoint 2013 (Customer Preview) and as with any Beta release is subject to change. For further information on planning and upgrading content and services to...

As you all know we publicly announced the availability of public beta (Customer Preview) release of next version of Office yesterday including SharePoint 2013, like previous release of SharePoint I've had the pleasure to work with Product Team and elite...

FYI, from Microsoft support site:
A recent, isolated issue was discovered in the SharePoint 2010 Products April 2012 Cumulative Update that could result in an HTTP 500 error when users delete objects to include documents, lists, and Webs and a new...

After updating one of my SharePoint 2010 labs with SharePoint 2010 December 2011 CU, I noticed that I could not see the document preview and thumbnails as part of my search results. After some digging with Fiddler I noticed that the call to wacproxy.ashx...

As you might know, the Microsoft SharePoint documentation team is offering a series of dedicated design sessions through out the week of October 3rd during the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA. I am very privileged to drive this sessions...

As I was working with a customer on designing their SharePoint 2010 farm using HNSC approach customer was curious on why they are not being able to return results for those site collections. After reviewing the search service application in their POC...

Recently I was asked by one of my customers on how the Content Organizer feature can be leveraged to design a large archival solution using SharePoint 2010. Initially this feature was enabled and configured for their Record Center (e.g. http://records...

Big thank you to Mark Kashman and the team for all the hard work on releasing these great content. “The Microsoft Office 365 Overview provides an excellent perspective of the overall value Office 365 provides to modern organizations in terms of productivity...

The Office 365 Beta is now open to the public. Office 365 provides a cloud-based subscription service that includes Office 2010 Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. Office 365 also provides developers and ISVs a platform...

I was asked by one of my customers to help troubleshooting why they could not import multi-value values for user profiles using BCS in SharePoint 2010, first of all this TechNet article and Spence Harbar’s blog have a lot of good information on planning...

Recently I received questions from our customers on SharePoint 2010 People Picker behavior when provisioning web applications in Claims mode using trusted identity provider such as AD FS 2.0, complaining the control not behaving as it does in Classic...